PTSD, Jesus and You: Remaking Marley (Survivor, Advocate and Thriver)
Special guest Marlena Kandell, pediatric ER nurse, advocate, child abuse survivor and thriver brings first hand value to the Wednesdays With Watson podcast. Think you can recognize child abuse? Maybe Marlena’s story will help re-frame flawed assumptions about this subject, and what we should observe–and more importantly ACT.
What if a harmed child just wanted you to ask if you cared? What if they just wanted you to ask if they are okay? Marlena shares her own desire to have had just one person ask her even one of those questions. What if just paying attention stopped wounded children from becoming wounding adults? WHAT IF?
Marlena also brings vulnerability to podcast by answering faith questions with beautiful honesty and transparency. She asks the questions we all ask, “Where was God?” She beautifully works out her own answer (or lack thereof) answer to that question.
April is child abuse awareness month, and Marlena is passionate about bringing awareness and solutions. In her advocacy work, she created {Re} Making Marley, an endeavor to empower abuse survivors and to create a safe place to undo child abuse and even have the opportunity to {Re] write our stories. In her [Re] Parenting Series, she guides adults survivors into an encouraging space that allows us to be the parents we never had.
This powerful, vulnerable episode is a must listen–for all of us. It is time to act, start by pressing play. There is a practical way you can help, join Marlena’s Instagram challenge, and help us raise $100 for Philadelphia Children’s Alliance and Prevent Child Abuse USA.
Host: Amy Watson
Guest: Marlena Kandell
Executive Producer: Amy Highland
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PTSD, Jesus and You: Recognizing Childhood Trauma, pt 2–Special Guest Jeremy Fox, LPC, EMDRI
Recognizing childhood trauma is as important for us are the solutions. The solution could be you, and your ability to recognize childhood trauma and so that we can help children’s forming brains, healing them as we recognize.
Special guest, Jeremy Fox, LPC, EMDRI joins the podcast to highlight the effects of trauma on a child’s brain particularly as it pertains to abandonment and neglect in all forms. Jeremy brings his knowledge of a well established trauma informed therapy, EMDR and is an approved EMDR trauma consultant.
He discusses the eight phases of the EMDR process:
1. History & Treatment Planning
2. Preparation
3. Assessment
4. Desensitization
5. Installation
6. Body Scan
7. Closure
8. Revaluation
Why is faith important to healing from trauma? “Purpose in Life Predicts Better Emotional
Recovery from Negative Stimuli.” APA style citation below:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0080329
Schaefer, S. M., Boylan, J. M., Van Reekum, C. M., Lapate, R. C., Norris, C. J., Ryff, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2013). Purpose in life predicts better emotional recovery from negative stimuli. PloS one, 8(11), e80329.
ADHD and PTSD article citation
Barkley, R. A. (1997). Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder, self-regulation, and time. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 18(4), 271-279. doi:10.1097/00004703- 199708000-00009
The effects of abandonment on the young brain:
DeBellis, M. D. (2005). The psychobiology of neglect. Child Maltreatment, 10(2), 150-172. doi:10.1177/1077559505275116
Perry, B. D. (2002). Childhood experience and the expression of genetic potential: What childhood neglect tells us about nature and nurture. Brain and Mind, 3(1), 79-100. doi:10.1023/A:1016557824657
Wilkerson, D., Johnson, G. & Johnson, R. (2009). Children of neglect with attachment and time perception deficits: Strategies and interventions. Education, 129(2), 343.
PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Recognizing Childhood Trauma, Special Guest Erica Cuni, LMFT
Erica Cuni, LMFT joins the Wednesdays With Watson podcast to help us understand and recognize childhood trauma and its effects on a child’s brain. She shares her expertise of Adverse Childhood Experiences and helps us understand the pathology of trauma and ACE scores as well as a CDC study addressing adverse childhood experiences. She cites a Centers For Disease study here.
Erica also helps us understand attachment styles and how they are fundamentally formed by trauma, but also promotes hope and healing. Erica has a passion for helping people and she herself a trauma survivor both in her young life as well as an adult. Erica speaks of trauma, and the poly-vagal industry and integrating into therapy. Finally, Erica shares with us an exciting treatment modality called Internal Family Systems. This evidence based therapy is a different take on popular trauma treatments like EMDR and CBT etc. It is based on the newest research on trauma and how to treat trauma. Find out more information about Internal Family Systems here,
The United States reported almost 2,000 child abuse deaths in 2019. April is child abuse awareness month, and the Wednesdays With Watson Podcast is going to continue to bring awareness so that wounded children do not become wounding adults.
Resources: Prevent Child Abuse, USA
During this month, Amy has a #lostchildchallenge on her Instagram account. While highlighting child abuse awareness month, the host of the healing zone is seeking healing that our guest today insists exists after child abuse. Find those videos on this Instagram handle: instagram.com/authoramywatson.com
Special Guest: Erica Cuni, LFMFT
Executive Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover: Brittney Knight
Logo Design: Anna Roberts
Promotion Video: Rebecca Reed
Song “Marked By You” used by permission, words and music by Phil Baker.
